Translate what you select.
Stay where you are.

A quiet menu-bar translator for macOS, running on the model you choose.

Get yiyi How it works

A selected sentence in a reading window, translated by yiyi after a keyboard shortcut — Select text, press your shortcut, read.

The same translation triggered by pressing and holding the trackpad — Or just press and hold the trackpad. No keyboard.

yiyi's Commands settings, showing a translation prompt with a highlighted selection placeholder — Your prompts, your shortcuts, your model.

Translation, without changing context.

Free and open source
Your own endpoint
Native macOS

Install from Terminal

curl -fsSL https://misterbrookt.github.io/yiyi/install.sh |
              bash

Builds from source on your Mac. Needs macOS 14 and Xcode Command Line Tools. Read the script.